Spring-holder for lamp-chimneys



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L. PPINGST. SPRING'HOLDER POR LAMP GHIMNEYS.

No. 347375. Patented Aug. '17, 1886.

WITNESSES.-

, ATTORNEYS I N. PETERS. Pnumiilhcgrapher. Washing YNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

LOUIS PFINGST, OF PULLMAN, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE M. PULLMAN, OF

' CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SPRING-HOLDER FOR LAIVIP-CHIMNEYS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 347,375, dated August17,1886.

Application filed January 28, 1886. Serial No. 190,080.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, Louis PFINGST, a citizen of the United States,residing at the village of Pullman, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois, have invented a new and usespring for holding the chimney ofalamp used upon cars or in similar places from shaking or rattling, andalso so formed that it may be used to support the chimney while the lampis being trimmed or filled.

In the drawings annexed, forming part of this specification, Figure 1represents a front View of my improved spring as in position and holdinga lamp-chimney, and Fig. 2 is a side view (if one of the said springs.

B represents the chimney of any lampsuch as, for instance, one of thoseused for lighting streetcars. A smoke-bell, D, provided with a chimney,is suitably fixed above the glass chimney B for carrying off theproducts of combustion. To the rim of the smoke-bell D are fixed twodouble springs, A, of wire, and provided with spring-coils'L, saidsprings A extending downwardly and inwardly and shaped so as to fit theexterior of the glass lampehimney B.

When it is necessary to light or trim the lamp, the glass chimney'may bepushed up,

' While lighting or trimming.

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receive the bulge of thelamp-chimney between them, and connected attheir lower tips by a cross-piece, whereby when the lamp-chimney israised the bulge of the chimney on opposite sides enters the openingbetween the members of the springs, and the lower side of the bulgerests upon the cross-pieces of the springs supporting thechimney,substantially asshown and described.

2. The combination of a lamp, a glass chimney therefor, a smoke bell,and depending springs attached to said smoke-bell and resting againstthe chimney on opposite sides thereof, each of said springs being formedof two members curved inwardly so that their convex side is presented tothe chimney, and united at their tips by a cross-piece, the said twomembers in each spring being placed at such a distance apart as toreceive a portion of the chimney between them, and said crosspiece beingcurved to conform to the contour of the chimney, whereby the chimneywill be normally held firmly in position when onthe lamp, and when thechimney is raised a portion of the bulge will be forced between themembers of the springs and the weight of the chimney will be supportedby the cross-piece, substantially as described and shown.

LOUIS PFINGST.

YVitnesses:

FREDERICK G. GooDwIN, E. L. HUBER.

